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Hegewald, Zacharias
(b Chemnitz, Saxony, 1596; d Dresden, 30 March 1639). German sculptor. He was the son of a sculptor, Michael Hegewald ( fl 1595–1626). He trained with Sebastian Walther, whose daughter he married in 1626. He was first influenced by Giovanni Maria Nosseni, on whose tomb in the Sophienkirche in Dresden (now Dresden, Mus. Gesch. and Dresden, Frauenkirche; for illustration see WALTHER, (4)) he worked with Walther until 1616. As well as producing small-scale sculptures for the court of the Elector John-George I of Saxony, which later earned him the title of court sculptor, he was employed from 1626 in the workshop for the Lusthaus (destr. 1746) in Dresden. His wax model for a bronze statue of Electress Sophie was lost in a casting accident in 1627–8. He made for the Elector the life-size statues of Adam and Eve (1630–31; Dresden, Skulpsamml.; destr. 1945), which were the first pure nudes of monumental format to be produced in Saxony. In them the influence of Michelangelo is evident, as well as that of the Flemish Mannerism of Adriaen de Vries. Hegewald’s smaller sculptures include the sandstone Ecce homo on the monument to David Peifer (Dresden, Kreuzkirche). In the altar of the church at Kötzschenbroda near Dresden, completed in 1638, a figurative relief is incorporated into a very lively and elaborate scrollwork frame. Hegewald’s early Baroque oeuvre is completed by figurative tomb carvings, such as the epitaph for Wolf E. von Ponickau (1617; Kamenz, Stadtkirche) and the funerary monuments of Michael Schulze and Elisabeth von Haugwitz (1631; Dresden, Sophienkirche), all of which were destroyed in 1945.
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